Miriam on January 30th, 2010

Why on earth would this site link to me?? Know what page it linked to? This one. I found this out because when I log in to my dashboard, WordPress shows me websites that have linked to mine, and it showed me that one. Now that’s just weird. Does that site automatically link to stuff [...]

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Miriam on January 29th, 2010

….are equipped with special hiding places for toddlers:

That’s my phone he’s talking on. You’ll notice he took off one of his shoes. This was after he climbed up on the leather couch and threw a piece of orange into the wrought-iron umbrella stand. (We were refinancing our mortgage, because of various things that only God [...]

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Miriam on January 27th, 2010

[Ed. note: This post was inspired by an email I just received.]
I am mad. I am mad. I am mad, mad, mad. I am so mad I have steam blowing out my ears and I’m going to punch somebody’s lights out. * BOOM * BANG * POW * See? Somebody just got their lights punched [...]

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Miriam on January 26th, 2010

I have a problem. People apparently need sleep. It’s strange but true. Apparently if people do not sleep they become, um, this ·
Can you see that? Here it is again: ·
That’s the point of an arrow, pointing at… me. Apparently, if people do not sleep, they become what that arrow is pointing at, which is [...]

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Miriam on January 25th, 2010

I’ve been doing something horribly wrong in my punctuation correcting for my client. Horribly horribly wrong. I have to fix it. I must fix it. What if I had sent it back to the client unfixed?? I was wrong. I was wrong about punctuation. Punctuation!! This is a catastrophe. The world as I know it [...]

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Miriam on January 23rd, 2010

Mazal tov to my amazing friend Sarah, who got a part in Fiddler on the Roof!! I totally knew she could do it, and the fact that she even tried out is but one piece of evidence that she is the coolest person in the world. BFFD is also going to be performing in a [...]

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Miriam on January 19th, 2010

Part of it, anyway.
In answer to your question: Yes. I saw it. I know about the nice big article about pediatric stroke on the front page of today’s Science Times. My dear friend Some Guy alerted me to it last night, and as of 8:30 this morning, three people had emailed me the link; since [...]

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Miriam on January 15th, 2010

Haiti. Haiti Haiti Haiti Haiti ouch Haiti. G kindly suggested to me yesterday morning that I avoid looking at the front pages of either of our newspapers. So I didn’t. Until I did. But thank God I managed to hide them from the kids. I don’t even want to think about what would happen to [...]

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Miriam on January 14th, 2010

Except the toilet, that is.
So I’m still anxious, of course, but on a much more normal and navigable level. A hearty thanks to all those fine souls who have called and/or emailed to inquire as to my well-being, or R’s well-being. I’d call you back, but I hate the phone. Though I’m not sure which [...]

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Miriam on January 13th, 2010

WHOA has something hit me full in the face. Could be R; could be the other kids; could be my continuing ignoring of the paperwork, etc. that I need to complete in order to receive my MA; could be the paperwork I have to complete for all the testing R needs; could be the possibility [...]

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